Hair

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musical comedy development

…of the rock musical was Hair (1967), which found its social dissent in a combination of loud music, stroboscopic lighting, youthful irreverence, and nudity. In a few cases, rock music was combined with biblical stories, as in Godspell (1971) by Stephen Swartz and Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) by Andrew Lloyd…

significance of rock music

In 1968 the musical, Hair (written by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot), reached Broadway. Its score, an eclectic mix of original compositions influenced by both show music and mid-1960s rock, provided several pop singers with Top Ten hits: “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” for the Fifth Dimension, “Good…